Regional Heads of State decided to freeze the financial assets and impose travel ban on Guinea's junta members and their relatives, insisting on the release of President Alpha Conde and a short transition.
After six months elections should be held, said ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou at a briefing.
The bloc also piled more pressure on the transitional government of Mali, demanding they stick to an agreement to organize elections for February 2022 and present an electoral road map by next month, according to the post-summit communique.
Anyone in Guinea, who hinders preparation for presidential elections, faces the same sanctions as those imposed in Mali, it said. Leaders who took part in the summit hailed this more hardline stance. West and Central Africa has seen four coups since last year - political upheaval that has intensified concerns about a backslide towards military rule in an economically restricted region. Macky Sall, a Senegalese President, welcomes the actions of the Summit to safeguard Democracies, Peace, Security and Stability in the subregion. Coup leaders are holding consultations this week with various public figures, groups and business leaders in the country to map a framework for the transition. Late on Thursday they said that they were also expecting a delegation of regional heads of state to visit Conakry for talks on Friday. Soldiers behind the Sept. 5 coup have said they had ousted Conde because of concerns about corruption and poverty, and because he was serving a third term only after altering the constitution to allow it. Meanwhile, the putsch in Mali was largely precipitated by a security crisis, which has seen militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State extend their influence across the territory of the country. The new Malian authorities' vow to hold presidential and legislative elections early next year has been undermined by their failure to meet various deadlines, including the start of voter roll updates and the presentation of a new constitution. The transition was dealt a second setback in May when the colonel who led the initial coup ordered the arrest of the interim president and then took over the role himself.